Ellis Park Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis has cut a brilliant and unorthodox figure in music for over three decades.
Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. Co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose dedicated team of conservationists rescues trafficked and mistreated animals and then devotes years to nursing them back to health.
This fly-on-the-wall documentary offers both a deeply personal insight into one artist’s life through the act of creating and an inspiring reminder of how much can be achieved when working together.
Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. Co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose dedicated team of conservationists rescues trafficked and mistreated animals and then devotes years to nursing them back to health.
This fly-on-the-wall documentary offers both a deeply personal insight into one artist’s life through the act of creating and an inspiring reminder of how much can be achieved when working together.
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00:00You all right? Yeah, it's all right. It's okay mum. You got the right tune?
00:06I never found the right tune.
00:12Playing music was always an act of meditation for me.
00:17The world stops. I could never roll that into real life.
00:24As a kid, I would come in here and sit. There was this statue of light from Pompeii.
00:28The story of the exploding volcano.
00:38The woman's hand over the baby's face.
00:42Trying to protect. Doing whatever you could.
00:49The main exits from Sumatra to Java. This is a huge smuggling route for animals.
00:54The poachers catch them for the illegal pet trade when they are babies. It's so sad.
01:02These are critically endangered animals. But there was no center here. Then Warren
01:06stepped in and the impossible became possible. I really can't wait to meet them.
01:10Have you been in a cage with primates before? No, I haven't. Can you hold my hand?
01:17Welcome to your Indonesian home, Warren.
01:21There you go, gorgeous.
01:25Here was a team of people who were so devoted to what they were doing. It absolutely blew me away.
01:33The park is not a zoo. The goal of the place is to give them their freedom back.
01:41Here I see care. And I see faith. And I see hope. And I see compassion.
01:48I see all these values that it has taken me a long time to try and come to terms with in my life.
01:54What's that, an eagle? An eagle, yeah. I put that through a stem of a champagne glass.
02:01That's pretty wild. Yeah, wow. It's not like an eagle.